A utopia em Mikel Dufrenne: fundamentação estética e sua ambientação crítico-social

The theme of the relations between art and politics is back, and also with it - in its very core - the problematic of utopia as a transformation movement of both. The aesthetic utopia has, above all, a fundamental ethical commitment, which consists in intervening in injustice situations that degrade human existence; it contributes to the transformation of the individuals living conditions and social structures, in order to achieve a fuller, more fraternal, freer and more creative realization of the human being. The intentionality that impels to realize this ethical commitment does not come to him from any other imperative than that emanating from Natura naturans and fulfills the desire, as it happens in art. Therefore, art and poetry are simultaneously condition and consequence of this utopia, in whose movement they also arise renewed. In short, utopia gains an aesthetic-artistic, social, ethical, political and even ontological dimension that helps to critically improve our human existence. Having established these premises, however, the problem of setting the model of organization of the art and politics fields according to the demands of utopia remains open. It is evident that it is out of question to resort to the traditional institutional paradigm; it will certainly be through the exemplarity of art that avenues of fruitful collaboration will be opened, especially through the popular practice of art, for a generalized practice of art means more guarantee of emancipation and freedom.